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“Shame” in the New Testament

By HonorShame Posted on March 16, 2021 Posted in NT, Shame No Comments Tagged with NT, shame

The New Testament uses a variety of words to speak about shame. This post discusses main three roots for shame. This first pie chart shows the various Greek terms behind the word “shame” in the NRSV. The primary NT word …

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Honor-Shame and Relativism: What Evangelicals Don’t Get about Donald Trump

By HonorShame Posted on March 3, 2021 Posted in Culture 11 Comments Tagged with relativism, trump

Guest Dr. Stan Nussbaum is an independent mission coach, researcher, and author. His latest project is SYNC. No culture is pure honor-shame, pure guilt-forgiveness, or pure power-fear. All are mixes and all change over time. American culture is a guilt-forgiveness …

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Shame in the Old Testament

By HonorShame Posted on February 16, 2021 Posted in OT, Shame 1 Comment

Shame is a hot topic in the Old Testament! To convey the concept of shame, the OT uses at least ten different words over 300 times. With many different words, shame is the proverbial ice in Eskimo culture. Several verses …

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Honor in the Old Testament

By HonorShame Posted on February 9, 2021 Posted in Honor, OT 2 Comments Tagged with Honor, OT

“How heavy are you?” In Western contexts, this question can be offensive. But in honor-shame cultures, the very question can be a gesture of respect because their mindset often assumes “weight=honor.” Here are a few examples from Central Asia. The …

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7 Problems with Defining “Honor” & “Shame”

By HonorShame Posted on February 2, 2021 Posted in Honor, Shame, Theology 3 Comments Tagged with definitions, Honor, shame

What do the words “honor” and “shame” mean? What is their theological meaning? These questions are surprisingly complex, for the several reasons listed here. This post explains 7 challenges with defining “honor” and “shame.” Honor and shame are invisible. The terms …

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Book: Shame-informed Counselling and Psychotherapy

By HonorShame Posted on January 16, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

Dr. Edmund Ng is the founding president of the Asian Christian Counselors Association. This post stems from his new book Shame-informed Counselling and Psychotherapy: Eastern and Western Perspectives (Routledge, 2020). Whether it is in people-helping or mission outreach, I firmly …

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New Evangelism Training Videos (CRU)

By HonorShame Posted on January 6, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

In 2018 CRU released “Honor Restored,“a digital tool designed to help you share the good news of Jesus with friends from honor-shame cultures. Since then, the app has been translated into many languages and used widely. The creators now have …

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Advent Devotional: “Honor, Shame, and the First Christmas”

By HonorShame Posted on December 16, 2020 Posted in Bible, Jesus 5 Comments Tagged with Christmas

Cameron D. Armstrong (PhD, Biola University) serves with the International Mission Board in Bucharest, Romania. He is part of the Theological Education team and teaches at the Bucharest Baptist Theological Institute. Cameron and his wife, Jessica, have two children. One …

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When to Shame? When to Honor?

By HonorShame Posted on December 9, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized 8 Comments

When should we honor (or shame) someone? This question is complex and has many facets. However, the book Economies of Esteem (OUP, 2004) offers interesting insight into “esteem equilibrium” (pages 126-29). As an economic theory, their model is descriptive, not …

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New Book: Honor, Shame, and the Gospel (WCP)

By HonorShame Posted on December 2, 2020 Posted in Resources No Comments

William Carey Press has published the new book Honor, Shame, and the Gospel (240 pp.), edited by Chris Flanders and Werner Mischke. This compendium brings together many of the outstanding presentations from our 2017 conference at Wheaton. The book is available in …

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Jesus’ Purifying Death

By HonorShame Posted on November 25, 2020 Posted in Bible, Jesus No Comments

After Jesus died, something strange happened. “The tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the holy ones who had fallen asleep were raised. After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to …

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Crucifixion as “Exaltation” in the Gospels

By HonorShame Posted on November 11, 2020 Posted in Christology, Jesus, salvation 5 Comments Tagged with atonement, cross, exaltation, Honor, salvation

Jesus was “lifted up” onto the cross. This phrase refers to the physical act of raising the person so that everyone could see. However, the term also has royal/status connotations. Crucifixion was a moment of exaltation. On this topic, Joel Marcus …

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Crucifixion as Exaltation in Mark

By HonorShame Posted on November 4, 2020 Posted in Jesus, salvation 1 Comment Tagged with atonement, cross, exaltation, Honor

When was Jesus exalted and gloried? In the Gospel of John, Jesus is gloried at the cross. The fourth gospel plays off the double meaning of “lifted up” (3:14; 8:28; 12:31-34; 13:18). When the Romans lift up the crucified Jesus …

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The Atonement: A Series

By HonorShame Posted on October 29, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized 5 Comments

How does God save? More specifically, how do Jesus’ death and resurrection bring salvation? This is the question of “atonement”—the core of Christian theology. Posts over the next several weeks will explore the theology of atonement in light of honor-shame. …

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New Issue of Missio Dei Journal on Honor-Shame

By HonorShame Posted on October 22, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

The academic online publication Missio Dei: A Journal of Missional Theology and Praxis has a recent issue dedicated to honor and shame. Rather than repeating the introductory explanations of honor and shame, the articles apply and explore a rich variety of topics in …

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Purity and Pollution in the Gospels

By HonorShame Posted on October 15, 2020 Posted in Bible 1 Comment

“Jews in the first century focused on external, ritual purity. Then Jesus came along and erased all the Jewish purity regulations. He emphasized on the internal, moral dimensions of the Law.” Such thinking is the standard Christian interpretation of Jesus’ …

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Honor-Shame in India??

By HonorShame Posted on October 7, 2020 Posted in Culture 3 Comments Tagged with India, resources

There appears to very few resources about honor-shame in India. Compared with other contexts such as Asian and Arab cultures, I have discovered only a few resources on the topic, either secular or Christian. This is surprising to me, considering …

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A Gospel Narrative for the Shame-Honor Culture of India

By HonorShame Posted on September 23, 2020 Posted in Communication, Culture 3 Comments Tagged with contextualization, gospel, India

Jay Dharan (M.Div, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary) is a Bible-teacher ministering in India. He desires to foster an indigenous Christianity that addresses the honor-shame culture of India. In India, the shame-honor culture is deeply rooted in the caste system, which …

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Paul’s Rhetoric of Shame in Philemon, ala John Chrysostom

By HonorShame Posted on September 15, 2020 Posted in Bible No Comments Tagged with philemon

John Chrysostom preached four homilies on Paul’s letter to Philemon. The fourth-century bishop of Constantinople was trained in Greek rhetoric, so he discusses the various ways that Paul uses honor and shame to influence Philemon. The words “honor” and “shame” …

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Article: “Why We Dislike Shame”

By HonorShame Posted on September 2, 2020 Posted in Culture, ethics 3 Comments

The American Interest has published an article “Why We Dislike Shame—and Can’t Get Enough of It.” The article examines why shaming is essential in America today, and offers some suggestions for curbing its excesses. I commend the article for its clarity, balance, …

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